Olympic swimming: Soni wins 200m breaststroke with world record
Submitted by Keval Sharma on Fri, 08/03/2012 - 08:01.
London, Aug 3 - Rebecca Soni of the United States won the women's 200 metres breaststroke gold, smashing the world record by half a second.
Soni, the defending Olympic champion, won in 2 minutes, 19.59 seconds Thursday.
Satomi Suzuki of Japan took the silver in 2:20.72, with Iuliia Efimova of Russia settling for the bronze in 2:20.92.(IANS)
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